a_nicole313
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Hi you!
Handy Kallie to the rescue.
When I noticed that the results were as a result of a Psych study it all made sense. The discipline of psychology examines human behaviour, so that is the angle that is pursued. Here is the answer you seek (taken from a Psychology Today article): Paul McCartney has not written a hit song in years, and now spends much of his time painting. Bill Gates is now a respectable businessman and philanthropist, and is no longer a computer whiz kid. J.D. Salinger now lives as a total recluse and has not published anything in more than three decades. Orson Welles was a mere 26 when he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.
A single theory can explain the productivity of both creative geniuses and criminals over the life course: Both crime and genius are expressions of young men's competitive desires, whose ultimate function in the ancestral environment would have been to increase reproductive success.